The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-05-13

ne Terrible Calamity In the Victoria Goal
Cempsny's Mine - Nannlmo. ~ C.--lsut
Little Hope 81 Rescue for the umprIsoned
Minsrs-uist 81 the Dead, Injured and
Those sim Entombed.
NAxAIxo. b. C., May Sit was believed
late last night that tho IRE In tho air shaft
Of shaft No. I. Of the Victoria Coal Com.
pany's mine, had boon cxtinguished, and
that only small body Of flame existed
between the air and main shafts, which
can DO conquered today. An attempt will!
then be made 20 bring mir In, and the work
OF rescue will begin. by tonight, II Is
hoped, the men will be reached. A shift
that came up late In the night reported
hearing evidence OF q pick striking the
opposite side Of tho wall There Is
FAINT hope OF reaching the imprisoned
men.
The danger OF the gas being driven into
the Are and second explosion Il not
past and fears are entertained that tho
whole place may be blown up Old miners
say such result Is possible. lit should
occur the catastrophe would be the great
est recorded In the history Of coal mining
The mines extend out from the shaft moro
than mile beneath the waters OF the har,
cor.
The cause Of the explosion IL unknown.
but IL 10 generally supposed 70 have been
an explosion Of coal dust The tale may
never be told.
The men now In tho bowels Of the earth
were on the afternoon shift from two un
til ten o'clock.
Jules Michael. ono OF tho injured, saws
he was It supper in No. 2 shaft when he
felt tho conclusions. All scrambled, but
became inscnsible, and only one was
saved Of his four companions whose dead
bodies came up In the cage with him. He
represents the explosion a. having been
terrific Every thing became dark at
once
John Lynch. another Of tho injured. has
been demented ever since the accident,
and continually talks about working In the
pit II IL thought he will die, having in
hailed gas
samuel Hodson, one Of the killed, was
. miner Of great experience. He died
from the effects Of after-damp.
Following are the names OF the killed
and injured:
Dcad-Wm. Davis, John Lynn, John
Smith, VIM. Craven, Frederick Watson
and Samuel Hodson; also seven China
men.
Injurcd-Georgc Davis, John Jones,
J. Stone, ST., John Lynch and Jules
Michael
Richard Gibson. the ovcrseer OF the
mine, miraculously escaped with few
cuts about the face 1t Is estimated that
there are between fifty and seventy Ave
Cinnamon in the mine
Following Is list Of those now In the
mine as near as can be asccrtained.
No ! Level-Geo. Bowdcn, Geo. Sim
mons. T. Martin. David Ellis and his son
Arthur, BENZ. Popplewcll. Jas. Thomas.
Joseph Watson, Edward Jones, David
Morgan. Edward Wilkins, Edward Ben
ton, Wobank, James Campbell. John
Malcolm, Robt Burlington, J. McGrifin,
Robert Fallo. James Milton. VIM. Bene,
WIN. Gilbert, John Richards. J. Forest.
Jos. Thompson. Michael Lyons, Andrew
Hunter. John Meakin, ST., Andrew Muir,
VIM. Campbell, J. Smith
New Slope-Daniel Dawson, r. Burns.
Thomas Perry. Robert Nicholson. iona.
than Blundell. Geo. Riggs. Geo. Dawson,
J. Hughes, Chss. Drake. c. Willis, VIM.
Hogitt, JOS Sym, John Thompson. A.
Smiley, VIM. Morris, VIM. Hoy. John
Miles. Alex Mcdonald, VIM. Scabe, Frank
Tully, VIM. Stevens, J. A. Meekin and J.
German.
No. 5 Level (old siope)- Corcoran,
Malcolm Mclean, Peter Bucca, Joseph
Tollardo. John Zcrmain and De Porte (tho
four latter Italians). Nicholas John, Rod
erick Mcdonald, W. ). Morgan. >. II.
Meyers, l. Allen and H. Brun.
No. Level. North-George Old. Abra-
ham Dicrs, John Wobank, Chip Wobank.
Evan Jones. Thomas Evan, William and
James Davcy, ,. II. westfelt, Arch Mier,
Henry Lee and his son Hudson Lee, Rob
ert and John Stone. William Redby, 10
seph and Andrew Martin. Bcrtram.
Hobart Bcvilockway, William Lukey, ST.,
William Lukey, Jr, James Hogan, j.
Byers and Joseph Isbistcr.-
The grief Of the women il terrible
They tear their hair and walk up and
down before the shaft, and some Of them
want 70 60 into the cage TO find their
loved ones.